Whether medicinal marijuana should be legalised has attracted debate recently. Central to the discussion both in New Zealand and overseas, is how legalising the drug for medicinal purposes will affect the use of non-medical marijuana and other drugs. Dr Luke Yu-Wei Chu's empirical research provides insight to this question. Keep Reading
In 2013, work between Sydney-based Professor Wolfgang Weninger, Dr Ben Roediger and Malaghan Institute PhD student Ryan Kyle[1] - under the supervision of Professor Graham Le Gros - resulted in the discovery and characterisation of a new immune cell in the skin capable of driving atopic inflammation. The results of this work were published in the.. Keep Reading
A new exhibition called Beyond the Lab will open at the Science Museum on Thursday, showcasing a cross-section of contemporary biomedical initiatives in Europe. The exhibition will feature the work of seven European scientists conducting urgent research with cutting-edge applications, with the significant additional factor that most of the... Keep Reading
The Australian Synchrotron, the largest particle accelerator in the Southern Hemisphere, is helping scientists from all corners of the world, including more than 350 New Zealand researchers, to study everything from food technology to arts forgery, from brain function to fundamental physics, from climate change to cancer research. Keep Reading
Kate Obermeyer grew up thinking that the world sounded the same to everybody around her. It wasn’t until she was 11 that her hearing loss was discovered during a routine primary school check. She was fitted with hearing aids and presented with a devastating prognosis that she would be deaf by the time she was 40. Keep Reading
At the start of 2016, Malaghan Institute scientist Mike Berridge published ground-breaking research in which he showed that mitochondria, little powerhouses that fuel each cell, can shuttle between individual cells and transfer DNA. DNA transfer between animal cells was considered impossible, and the work describes a fundamentally new process that. Keep Reading
Two of New Zealand's top biomedical researchers have achieved what's considered a "gold medal" in global science -- chalking up 1000 citations of a landmark paper they published 22 years ago. The 1993 study led by Professor Mike Berridge and research fellow An Tan, both of the Wellington-based Malaghan Institute, is now the most cited original... Keep Reading
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